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The PC market saw an 11.8 percent year-over-year decline in the second quarter as retailers braced for the launch of Windows 10, according to research firm IDC. Despite the shrinking market, Apple saw a boom in PC sales after launching its latest MacBook in March.

Accenture has bet big on digital platforms, rolling out the Accenture Cloud Platform and more to help customers capitalize on the idea that 'every business is a digital business,' says CTO Paul Daugherty.

In a move that will help the solution provider behemoth better align its operations and drive sales around advanced solutions, PCM has reorganized its sales divisions and hired new top-level leadership for its sales and marketing divisions from rival Zones, CRN has learned.

Cisco's planned acquisition of MaintenanceNet, which develops solutions for contract renewals and recurring revenue, will likely mean other vendor partners of MaintenanceNet will lose access to the technology.

IT spending is projected to decline by 5.5 percent worldwide, according to the research firm. But one solution provider says he sees no slowdown because of the rising interest in public cloud adoption.

CRN combs through the filings of the biggest publicly traded Solution Provider 500 companies to find some of the more interesting, unusual or downright drool-worthy perks solution provider CEOs got in 2014.